Musical Authorship from Schütz to Bach

Stephen Rose (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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English

Cambridge University Press
12 August 2021

Sacred & religious music; Music recording & reproduction; Social & cultural history; Publishing industry

Series: Musical Performance and Reception

What did the term 'author' denote for Lutheran musicians in the generations between Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach? As part of the Musical Performance and Reception series, this book examines attitudes to authorship as revealed in the production, performance and reception of music in seventeenth-century German lands. Analysing a wide array of archival, musical, philosophical and theological texts, this study illuminates notions of creativity in the period and the ways in which individuality was projected and detected in printed and manuscript music. Its investigation of musical ownership and regulation shows how composers appealed to princely authority to protect their publications, and how town councils sought to control the compositional efforts of their church musicians. Interpreting authorship as a dialogue between authority and individuality, this book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore changing attitudes to the self in the era between Schütz and Bach.

By: Stephen Rose (Royal Holloway University of London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781108431286
ISBN 10: 1108431283
Series: Musical Performance and Reception
Pages: 259
Publication Date: 12 August 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. God, talent, craft: concepts of musical creativity; 2. Between imitatio and plagiarism; 3. Signs of individuality; 4. Rites of musical ownership; 5. The regulation of novelty; 6. Authorship and performance; Conclusion.

Stephen Rose is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach (Cambridge, 2011) and editor of Leipzig Church Music from the Sherard Collection (2014), he is also the co-editor of the journal Early Music.

Reviews for Musical Authorship from Schütz to Bach

'The writing is clear, the scholarship impeccable. This is a valuable addition to the historical musicology literature.' B. J. Murray, Choice 'Rose is on familiar ground here given his prior distinguished work in the field, and he navigates it with great aplomb. He is particularly strong on how composers sought to control the market for their wares by way of printing and publishing.' Tim Carter, Seventeenth-Century News